tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83211061653492252892017-12-08T21:12:57.078-05:00Dixie and DottieDixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.comBlogger467125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-40067110639624476312017-12-08T21:12:00.004-05:002017-12-08T21:12:57.137-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Christmas at Grey Sage" height="400" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Chistmas-at-Grey-Sage-sm.jpg" width="261" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Christmas at Grey Sage"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Phyllis Clark Nichols</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This Christmas, there’s plenty of room at the inn.</strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Nestled in the snow-covered Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, the Grey Sage Inn looks like the perfect place for weary travelers to escape the craziness of the Christmas season. There’s plenty to see in historic Santa Fe during the day, and the inn’s owners, Maude and Silas Thornhill, are happy to spend their evenings hosting this year’s guests from across the country.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">But an unusual snowstorm throws a wrench in the festive mood. The sprawling inn becomes close quarters as stranded guests discover this Christmas won’t be the relaxing vacation they expected. Tension and fear mount as the storm worsens, and Silas, a retired doctor, is called away in the middle of the night to care for a neighbor. The snow and stress unlocks tongues–and in the unexpected conversation that follows, secrets and pasts are revealed, and hearts are healed.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">In the midst of snowdrifts and fireside conversations, of tales of days gone by, the warmth of Christmas brings a renewed hope as these trapped strangers become friends–proof again that the joy, hope, peace, and love of Christmas can be experienced no matter where you are.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">******************************************</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a sweet story that helps remind us what the true meaning of Christmas is all about. While I really wanted to love this book, I just couldn't get into it. It was slow going for me, but it does make you think about what's important.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Read more about the book </span><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/pnichols" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">.</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARy BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-44515774525005601352017-12-08T20:32:00.000-05:002017-12-08T20:34:24.261-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Total Christmas Makeover" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Total-Christmas-Makeover.jpg" height="400" width="285" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Total Christmas Makeover"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Melissa Spoelstra</div><br /><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Give your Christmas a makeover with this practical approach to help your family learn what it means to truly celebrate their Savior.</strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">In the bustle of the Christmas season, it can be easy to get swept up in all of the things to do. But it’s important to pause and remember that our priority should be to spend time celebrating Christ’s birth and not forget to invite Jesus to his own party.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Christmas is far more than a celebration of an event from long ago or a modern holiday centered around shopping. Mindfully take time to listen to how God continues to speak through the Christmas story as the Gospel narratives centered around the birth of Jesus provide encouragement and revelation concerning the love of God and his wisdom for us today.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">In&nbsp;<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Total Christmas Makeover</em>, author and Bible teacher Melissa Spoelstra provides a practical approach for you and your family to turn your attention toward God’s grace day-by-day as you prepare for Christmas. This 31-day devotional presents key scriptures, ideas to implement with each reading, and questions for reflection to guide you in rediscovering rituals, relationship, and rest to connect you more deeply with Christ this holiday season.</div><div style="text-align: center;">************************************</div><br /><div dir="ltr" id="yiv0615475921yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_10124" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span id="yiv0615475921yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_10166" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">This book is divided into three sections Ritual, Relationships and Rest.&nbsp; Each section gives something to think about, questions to ponder and a practical approach to change your Christmas into a more meaningful season.&nbsp; I liked the suggestion about taking the Christmas cards as they come in and praying for the people who sent them,&nbsp; My major complaint about this book is not using scripture from the King James Bible.&nbsp; I don't understand why people use other so-called bibles, instead of the one true inspired Word of God.&nbsp; They claim they can understand them better, but to me they make things more confusing and they are changing the meaning of God's Word to suit themselves.&nbsp; What I like about this book is its purpose is to have a more meaningful Christmas and not one that is focused on the commercial side of Christmas.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Read more about the book <a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/mspoelstra" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a>.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-80308527466656952622017-12-08T20:28:00.002-05:002017-12-08T20:37:42.615-05:00<div id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_4690" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Christy" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Christy-600.png" height="400" width="266" />&nbsp;</div><div id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_4690" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">"Christy"</div><div id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_4690" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Catherine Marshall</div><div id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_4690" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_4690" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_5478" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_5479" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Set in the Smoky Mountain community of Gutter Gap Catherine Marshall shares with us the story of her mother Leonora Wood, who at the tender young age of 19, left home to teach the mountain children.&nbsp; In doing so she forever changed her life and the lives of others.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_5480" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Although based on a young woman's life, Christy is a work of fiction, with both fact and fiction woven in together.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_5481" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mountain people are proud as well as superstitious and they don't trust outsiders, and they don't trust each other. A "blood feud"&nbsp; is also involved and threatens to disrupt her classroom.&nbsp; The novel takes place in the year 1912, but times in Cutter Gap have not caught up to the outside world, so Christy also has physical hardships as well. Can Miss Huddleston see beyond their poverty and fierce clan-like nature and break down the barriers so she can help the people she has come to love?&nbsp; Also, two men are vying for her affections,&nbsp; the Preacher, and the Doctor, who was born and raised in the mountains and endeavors to help Christy understand his people.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_6896" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /></div><br /><div id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_4591" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"></span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_7367" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">******************************************************</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_7367" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_7367" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This is a beautiful 50th-anniversary copy of this delightful book.&nbsp; It has a map of all the important places in Cutter Gap in the front.&nbsp; Also a compiled list of the characters and a short relationship they have with each other.&nbsp; I would like to find out how much of this story is not fiction. Don't expect the book to be like the television series.&nbsp; There are some vast differences in places and at times it follows the book closely.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_7367" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_7367" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Read more about the book <a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/cmarshall" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a>.&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_7367" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4186363098yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1511833515711_7367" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-80912235063589062502017-11-24T19:58:00.004-05:002017-11-24T19:58:51.588-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="KJV Know The Word Study Bible" height="400" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/KJV-Know-the-Word-600.png" width="252" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">King James Bible</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gain a greater understanding of the Bible book by book, verse by verse, or topic by topic.</strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">The study of God’s Word can be easy and rewarding if you break down the Bible into easy-to-understand segments. The&nbsp;<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KJV Know the Word Study Bible</em>&nbsp;offers three easy ways to begin studying Scripture and helps individuals transition from being a casual reader of the Bible to becoming a regular student of the Bible. You can choose to study the Bible book-by-book, verse-by-verse, or topic-by-topic; each path offers powerful insights that will help you develop a daily routine of Bible study.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">The book-by-book series of notes leads you through the main points of each book of the Bible. The verse-by-verse notes help you to dig deeper into God’s Word. The topic-by-topic articles, which cover 21 theological topics, guide you through a series of insightful notes and give you a thorough biblical understanding of each topic. With the beautiful and timeless text of the KJV translation, the&nbsp;<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KJV Know the Word Study Bible</em>&nbsp;offers you choices of how to study Scripture and grow in your relationship with Christ.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Features include:</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">—King James Version Bible text<br />—Three easy approaches to study the Bible: 1. Book by Book; 2. Verse by Verse; 3. Topic by Topic<br />—Insightful introductions for each book of Scripture<br />—Words of Jesus in red<br />—Beautiful two-color interior page design<br />—Comprehensive list of theological notes<br />—Concordance<br />—Full-color maps<br />—8-point type size</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Read more about the book </span><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/tnelson" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">.</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Review:</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">The King James Bible Know the Word Study Bible is a very helpful and insightful study Bible. The explanations are very informative without being overwhelming. Of course, the Holy Spirit will always help you understand if we just ask Him. By using this Bible, it will help you to actually study God's Word instead of just reading it. II Timothy 2:15&nbsp;<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; text-align: center;">“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I definitely recommend this study Bible. You can never go wrong with studying God's Word - King James Bible.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-5065332090455204172017-11-24T19:47:00.000-05:002017-11-24T19:47:07.920-05:00<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Mercy Triumphs" height="400" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mercy-Triumphs-Small.jpg" width="258" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Mercy Triumphs"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jana Kelley</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three women. Three impossible circumstances. One merciful God.</strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Mia, an American Christian, has lived in Sudan so long that persecution, harassment, and danger have become commonplace for her. Her tough outer shell threatens to harden her heart while her newly Christian friends, Halimah and Rania, former Muslims, are forced to live in exile outside Sudan. All three quickly discover that escaping danger in one place only means facing even greater challenges elsewhere. As God’s mercy becomes evident in their lives, they must choose whether or not to offer mercy to those who don’t deserve it.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Third in a trilogy,&nbsp;<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mercy Triumphs</em>&nbsp;opens the reader’s eyes to modern-day persecution and the life of Muslims in Sudan. Based on real-life events,&nbsp;<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mercy Triumphs</em>&nbsp;reveals some of the struggles Christians face when living under Islamic law. The reader will be inspired to pray for new believers, those who are persecuted for their faith, and even for the salvation of the persecutors.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Read more about the book </span><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/jkelley" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Review:</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">"Mercy Triumphs" is definitely a different read, but the story is still compelling. We can never be reminded enough of how God can do the impossible. Not only that, but we should also believe that He can do the impossible! This book may be fiction, but it still provides great truths that we can all learn from.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE PUBLICITY FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-91656880958549940932017-11-24T19:37:00.002-05:002017-11-24T19:37:46.179-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ordinary Graces" height="400" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Ordinary-Graces-600.png" width="286" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Ordinary Graces"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lucinda Secrest McDowell</div><br /><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyone loves to receive a gift.</strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And God has given us many, such as his grace—the gift we don’t deserve and can never earn. Promises from the One who declares we are already loved, already accepted, already created in his image. The question becomes, will we truly receive that gift? Will the reality of it actually change the way we think and notice and reach out?</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">God’s Word will stand forever, in any season of life. These truths prompt us to respond with compassion and courage.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Through inspiring devotions, Lucinda Secrest McDowell reveals biblical blessings that remind us that: God’s promises give us strength, God’s grace can be most evident at our weakest points, a proper response to our abundance of blessings is simply gratitude, and the “more” we are all looking for is the same abundant life that Jesus came to give us.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Would you like to receive these gifts of ordinary grace? Join Lucinda in focusing on one word a day through devotional readings and short benedictions for any and every season to explore the many facets of Grace, Strength, Gratitude, and Life.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Read more about the book </span><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/lmcdowell" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">REVIEW:</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">This devotional is filled with nuggets of wisdom and encouragement. There are a variety of topics so the reader can pick and choose which to read, according to what pertains to them the most at the time.&nbsp;</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Each devotional is short&nbsp;but has a lot to offer. Perfect for those who are always on the go. It's the perfect size so you can carry it in your purse and take it with you.&nbsp;</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">"Ordinary Graces" is a must read and would be a perfect gift too!</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE PUBLICITY FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.&nbsp;</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-34562353233833429592017-11-19T23:54:00.002-05:002017-11-20T00:00:30.260-05:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Life is filled with choices. We have a bazillion choices that we have to make every single day. What to wear. What to eat. What to drink. What to say. When to say it. What to think. What to do. The list goes on and on. Some decisions involve other people, most do not. But there is one choice we have that will not only affect us today but tomorrow and for the rest of our lives. This decision will not only affect us&nbsp;but those around us. We will actually face this decision multiple times a day. These <i>God-given opportunities </i>come when life is hard. They also come when life is easy. How we handle life's peaks and valley's is completely up to us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In April of this year, the doctors discovered that my dad had colon cancer. Yep. The dreaded "C" word. Were we scared? You bet! Were we afraid? Absolutely! But we had two choices. <i>We could either worry, or we could pray.</i> We could worry ourselves sick over what was to become of our dad and his illness, or we could cast it on the One Who had the ability to remove his sickness. We could live in fear of tomorrow, or we could trust the One Who holds tomorrow. We could blame God, or we could cling to Him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So what do you do when life is too much for you to handle? When you're overwhelmed with situations that are beyond your control. What do you do when the bank account glares back at you in an angry shade of red? How do you handle a broken heart, disappointment, shattered dreams? How do you take that next step?</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>You can either worry about it or you can pray about it.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can pray to God Almighty, Who has your best interests at heart, or you can worry about it, which is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. Worry doesn't prevent disaster, it prevents prayer! It does nothing but steals your joy!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So why not let's take it to God in prayer? Take it to the One Who is trustworthy. Take it to the One Whom you need not doubt. Tell it to the One Who already has the answer and knows the outcome.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Share it with the One Who loves you&nbsp;unconditionally - for always and forever, no matter what! <i>Jeremiah 31:3 "...Yea, have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with thy lovingkindness have I drawn thee."</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cast it upon the One Who cares for you! <i>I Peter 5:7 "Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you."&nbsp;</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cry out to the One Who is always ready and waiting to listen. Someone Who hears even the faintest of prayers, the ones you can't even put into words because your heart is so heavy. <i>Isaiah 59:1 "Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:"</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we prayed about the things that concern us as much as we worried about them, we'd have a lot less to worry about. So let's turn our worry lists into prayer lists.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't stress about it. <u>Pray about it.</u></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>GOD'S GOT THIS!</u></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt=".Jeremiah 31:33 How is God’s law written in hearts? When a person loves God’s law so much that he has a fervent desire to do Jehovah’s will, it can be said that God’s law is written in his heart." src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b2/06/0a/b2060a8ceca539cdb67801993db25a58.jpg" /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-44397464450354047422017-03-13T16:13:00.000-04:002017-03-13T16:13:01.401-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Control Girl" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Contol-Girl.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tension, anger, fear, anxiety—it all begins with a heart that craves control.</strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Little fights with your husband and kids. Unhappiness when things don’t match your version of perfect. When your perspective of how life should go replaces God’s, you doom your quest for security, peace, and joy before it even starts.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Thankfully, there is a better way.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Join Shannon as she shares what she has discovered about her own control struggles and<br />about God from studying seven Control Girls in the Bible. Whether it was Eve’s desire to know instead of trust, Sarah’s inability to wait for God to move, or Rebekah’s controlling hand on her family’s future, each of these women’s stories contain warnings and lessons for us today.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn how you too can lay down this burden of trying to control everything and find rest in surrendering to the One who truly is in control.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">********************************************</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">We all have issues with control in some area of our life or another. &nbsp;This book helps you realize that, and also helps show how we can let go of our obsession to control things. &nbsp;We must learn to surrender our need to control things to God and let Him have his way.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Read more about the book </span><a href="http://here./"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">.</span></a></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-29206636784123574862017-03-13T16:07:00.000-04:002017-03-13T16:07:09.452-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Home to Paradise" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Home-to-Paradise.jpg" height="320" width="206" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Home to Paradise"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Barbara Cameron</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rose Anna Zook, the youngest of the three Zook sisters, has watched as her two older sisters convinced two of the three Stoltzfus brothers to marry them. So that's what's on her mind for John. the youngest Stoltzfus brother, but he is having too much fun living in the English world driving a truck and doesn't want to return to the Amish community. &nbsp;He especially doesn't want to marry. Also, he doesn't get along with his dad, so Rose Anna doesn't think he will ever return to the community. She is determined, however, and starts trying to manipulate things to reach the outcome she desires. But circumstances never really turn out s we wish, or do they?<br /><br />*********************************<br />I enjoyed this book very much. The author reviewed the background with us, which was beneficial if we had not read the previous books, or had not read them in a long time.<br /><br />This story shows us how powerful love can be.<br /><br />It also has an Amish to English glossary &amp; Amish recipes.<br /><br />Read more about the book <a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/bcameron" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-42454740668737076122016-12-29T15:22:00.002-05:002016-12-29T15:22:57.028-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Waiting for Wonder" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Waiting-for-Wonder-PK.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Waiting for Wonder"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Marlo Schalesky</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What if, in this waiting, God is calling us to more?</strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s easy to believe God when a promise is new. It’s hard when the years pass and nothing changes. It’s even harder when desperation strikes, your plans backfire, and still God does not fill the emptiness. But what if, in this waiting, God is calling us to more?</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Join author Marlo Schalesky on a unique, contemplative journey to reveal the wonder that is often missed when we find ourselves struggling to wait well. Walking through the life of the biblical character Sarah, one who knows what it means to wait, you will discover a glimpse of God’s character that will give you strength to keep hoping and praying for the desires of your heart.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Waiting for Wonder</em>&nbsp;is a journey into the heart of God where you will wrestle with personal questions, think deeply about God’s true character, and learn to appreciate His divine work as you discover your own path to the promised land. Recapture your hope, restore your soul, and renew your vision of a wondrous Savior when you learn to live on God’s time.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">***********************************</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. &nbsp;Marlo's Schalesky take on Sarah's story is so original. &nbsp;I loved reading how she imagined the way Sarah felt and what she was going through. &nbsp;There were many things I learned from reading this book. &nbsp;"Waiting for Wonder" was exactly what I needed, as I am in a period of waiting myself! &nbsp;I was encouraged and strengthened by reading this book and allowing God to use it to teach me. &nbsp;</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Read more about the book </span><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;"><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/mschalesky" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-16359330232696915862016-12-16T23:59:00.000-05:002016-12-16T23:59:14.922-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Getaway with God" class="left" height="auto" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Getaway-with-God.jpg" width="250" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Getaway with God"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Letitia Suk</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>What if a simple day away could transform your life?</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Does spending time with God sound like just one more thing to check off an ever-increasing to-do list? How are you supposed to fit in anything that threatens to be more time-consuming? Too often there’s simply no room to experience the intimacy, grace, and peace that God offers us.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Getaway with God</em> does more than invite you to step away from life’s pressures to take a personal retreat. It shows you exactly why you must–for your sake and for your family’s.</div><div style="text-align: center;">With grace and warmth, Letitia Suk provides step-by-step guidance and the necessary tools to enable any woman on any budget to plan time away, whether it’s a quick, half-day break or a weeklong time of restoration. You’ll find detailed steps for preparation, including descriptions of different kinds of retreats and how to choose the best one for you, and you’ll learn ways to bring the renewal you experience home with you. Practical appendixes identify retreat centers nationwide and provide exercises and prayers to kick-start your getaway with God.</div><div style="text-align: center;">No matter what your season in life, the time for retreat is now!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*********************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Getaway with God" is a an easy how-to book for how to schedule time to actually getaway with God.&nbsp; This book encourages you to actually make a plan and do it. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">While this is a great reminder and encouragement, I was expecting it to be more of a devotional. &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This book is an easy read and has a lot of tips of how to make a way for one to actually spend more time with God.&nbsp; I believe we all know how to do it, we just don't make the time to do actually spend time with God.&nbsp; That's what this book is about, actually putting our knowledge into action and getting alone with God! &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the book <span style="background-color: #660000;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/lsuk" target="_blank">here</a></span></span>. </div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-80742486574883391732016-11-22T19:11:00.001-05:002016-11-22T19:11:30.401-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Most-Wonderful-Time-of-the-Year.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"</div><div style="text-align: center;">by Ace Collins</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">For Christians worldwide, the month of December is filled with joy and wonder as we anticipate the celebration of Christ’s birth. There is no other time of the year that can compare to the Christmas season for both the young and young at heart.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">From December to New Year’s Eve, reawaken the wonder, joy, and magic that is Christmas with daily scripture and inspirational readings of stories behind popular Christmas traditions, carols and movies. Enjoy a wealth of fun activities to help make the most of the season, including heartwarming holiday recipes and homemade gift ideas.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">With this soon-to-be-cherished holiday devotional, best-selling author Ace Collins will capture your imagination and help to make each day of December more memorable and meaningful to you, and those you love, by shining a light on the real spirit of the season.</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">*******************************************</div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">This book is a daily devotional that starts on December 1. &nbsp;The passages in this book help us put things into perspective and remind us the importance and significance of Christmas. &nbsp;I love the recipes for snacks, gift ideas and songs included in each chapter. &nbsp;Reading "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" will put you in the Christmas spirit! &nbsp;</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Read more about the book </span><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/acollins" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">.</span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-51549959470911450422016-11-22T19:03:00.001-05:002016-11-22T19:03:12.787-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="An Amish Family Christmas" height="400" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Amish-Family-Christmas.jpg" width="265" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"An Amish Family Christmas"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shelley Shepard Gray</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Book number four in the Charmed Amish Life Series focuses on Levi Kensinger. &nbsp;Ever since his father died in a tragic fire, Levi has felt at odds with himself. &nbsp;He returns to Charm to find he doesn't really fit into his old life and with his brothers and sisters.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He finds a sense of purpose when Julia Kemp, his young widowed neighbor, asks for help with a Christmas project. &nbsp;Julia &amp; her daughter Penny could us a friend and Levi is happy to oblige. &nbsp;But something about Julia doesn't ring true, but Levi isn't quite sure what.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Penny has been led to believe her father is dead. &nbsp;But is he? &nbsp;What will happen when Penny &amp; Levi discover the truth? &nbsp;Will Julia have to run again for her &amp; Penny to be safe?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*******************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">Is this really the last book in the Charmed Amish Life series? We need more in this series! &nbsp;I love how she shows that faith is necessary to survive in this broken world &amp; realities of life.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE PUBLISHERS FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the book <a href="http://litfusegroup.com/books/amish-family-christmas" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a>. &nbsp;</div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-65849676606796528892016-11-22T18:52:00.002-05:002016-11-22T19:05:09.723-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="A Sister’s Wish" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/A-Sisters-Wish.jpg" height="400" width="265" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"A Sister's Wish"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shelley Shepard Gray</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A Sister's Wish is book three in the Charmed Amish Life series. &nbsp;This book focuses on Amelia &amp; Simon. &nbsp;Simon Hochstetter had always bee known as the community bad boy. &nbsp;He was forced out of the Amish community, along with his older brother and sister, because of their abusive father.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Simon returns to the Amish community repentant of his past; he discovers Amelia still has feelings for him. &nbsp;Lukas, Amelia's older brother and Simon's best friend, heartily disapproves of the match. &nbsp;Because of this, and Simon not wanting to sully the innocent and beautiful Amelia, Simon puts an end to their relationship.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But when other suitors arrive at Amelie'as door, Simon begins having second thoughts. &nbsp;Simon &amp; Amelia have to work through the issues that threaten to pull them apart.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*****************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a story of trust and forgiveness. &nbsp;Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves. &nbsp;It tells how we must forgive &amp; forget. &nbsp;Our past mistakes in order to have a future.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span><br /><br /><br /></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-32966907384331830312016-10-25T21:17:00.000-04:002016-10-25T21:22:33.597-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Cold-Case Christianity for Kids" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cold-Case-Christianity-for-Kids-HI.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Cold-Case Christianity"</div><div style="text-align: center;">J. Warner Wallace and Susie Wallace with Rob Suggs</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Between the ages of 8 and 12, kids often start to wonder if Christianity is true. In</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">&nbsp;</span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cold-Case Christianity for Kids</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">, detective J. Warner Wallace draws readers into the thrill of </span>high-stakes<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> investigation by showing them how to think rather than telling them what to think. In this children's companion to the bestselling</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">&nbsp;</span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cold-Case Christianity</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">, detective Wallace gets kids excited about testing witnesses, examining the evidence, and investigating the case for Christianity. Includes author illustrations and links to a website (coldcasechristianityforkids.com) where kids can download activities, fill in case notes, and earn a certificate of merit.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">&nbsp;</span></div><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Detective Wallace gets kids excited about testing witnesses, examining the evidence, and investigating the case for Christianity.</span></div><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The book starts out with a group of children going to a junior police academy program and learning how to be how detective. One of the boys finds an old skateboard and brings it class with him the next day. The children work together with the training detective to solve where the skateboard came from and how it ended up in the shed on the school property. While they begin the case of the skateboard, Detective Jeffries tells the children not to be “know-it-alls” about the case and he then asks them if they can think of an example of people being a “know-it-all”. One of the cadets speaks up and says that he thinks his neighbors are “know-it-alls” because they believe in God. Detective Jeffries says that Jason is being a “know-it-all” because he believes that there is no way that there is a God. Throughout the rest of the book the case of the skateboard and the case about God coincide with each other. As the cadets use the detective skills that they are learning to solve the skateboard case, they use those same skills to prove that God is real. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /><img alt="cold-case-christianity-400" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cold-case-christianity-400.png" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; 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font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kindle Fire case</a>&nbsp;(your kids’ choice of color)</li></ul><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;">Click </span><a href="https://promosimple.com/ps/a708" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e;"> to enter. &nbsp;</span></span></div><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: &quot;century gothic&quot;; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p>*******************************************************************</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. As the Children’s Church director at my church, I am always looking for resources and visuals that I can use with the children. This book gave me several good ideas that I am looking forward to using in the future. The worksheets that you can download to go with this book are great and would be perfect for children eight-years-old or older. The logic and detective skills that children will learn by reading this book can be applied to anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I received a free copy of this book from the publisher. No review positive or negative was required. All opinions are my own.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Read more about the book </span><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/jwswallace" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. &nbsp;</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-45897264921714059932016-08-30T23:00:00.000-04:002016-08-31T08:19:39.850-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Service Tails" class="left" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Service-Tails.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Service Tails"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ace Collins</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Heart-tugging true stories of the courage, faith, and loyalty of remarkable service dogs.</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Not all heroic dogs wildly toss themselves into lifesaving situations. Some save lives simply by their incredible commitment to duty and service. Some lead the way to independence for people whose disabilities were supposed to limit their lives.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In Service Tails: More Stories of Man’s Best Hero, prolific author Ace Collins introduces us to leaders whose entire lives are wrapped in the banner of service. Their stories are remarkable snapshots of the value of vision and teamwork, as well as devotion to duty and unconditional love and acceptance–stretching the way we see both canine and human potential. Their training was intense, their loyalty unquestioned and each step of the way they constantly adapt to better serve those they lead. These unforgettable dogs are more than heroes; they are models from which we can learn how to love and serve unconditionally.</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">********************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Service Tails" has 12 uplifting stories of how service dogs became heroes!&nbsp; This sweet book is filled with heartwarming and inspiring stories that will encourage your heart.&nbsp; It's amazing how God can and will use anyone or any animal, as long as we are willing.&nbsp; </div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the book <a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/acollins" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #660000; color: white;">here</span></a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-6906629357915902082016-08-25T23:05:00.003-04:002016-08-25T23:05:38.440-04:00<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3315" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><br /></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3315" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><img src="webkit-fake-url://f793bd76-495b-470c-96da-19037ac7c3e7/imagejpeg" /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3315" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><br /></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3315" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3345">The Loyal Heart by Shelley Shepherd Gray</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3354" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3345">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate Officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his dying comrade, Phillip Markham.&nbsp; To watch after his beloved wife Miranda.&nbsp; After the war Robert sets out to pick up the pieces and fulfill his promise.&nbsp; When he arrives at Miranda's home in Galveston, Texas, he is shocked to find how bad things are for Miranda.&nbsp; Rumors have started about Phillip being a traitor to the Cause.&nbsp; Also rumors are flying around town about Miranda, because she has turned her beautiful home into a boarding house so she can make ends meet.&nbsp; She also receives periodic visits from her mother and sister in law who want her out of Phillips home so they can move in.&nbsp; But the most disturbing is that Miranda is receiving threatening letters and the sheriff refuses to do anything about them.&nbsp; Who can Robert trust to help him save Miranda from collapsing under the emotional strain?&nbsp; What's more Robert finds himself attracted to Miranda.&nbsp; Well things work out for Robert and Miranda?&nbsp; Can they clear Phillip's name and prove the rumors to be false?&nbsp; Will Miranda get to keep her home?&nbsp; Read and find out.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_4382" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3345">4 and 1/2 stars.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_4408" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3345"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_4408" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_4414" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472155594718_3345">This book was different from other Gray books I have read. I had only read her Amish books which took place in Florida and they were a light read.&nbsp; This story&nbsp; kept you guessing and was unpredictable.&nbsp; Had more depth to it. I enjoyed it very much.</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-30812362784039054552016-08-24T18:40:00.001-04:002016-08-24T18:40:45.461-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Fetching Sweetness" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Fetching-Sweetness.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Fetching Sweetness"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dana Mentink</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="body undoreset" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1472078290862_2211" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; width: 769px;" tabindex="0"><div class="email-wrapped" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1472078290862_2210" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; display: table-cell; width: auto; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div id="yiv8115820901" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1472078290862_2209" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1472078290862_2208" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yiv8115820901yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472059317764_11299" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Fetching Sweetness by Dana Mentink</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8115820901yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472059317764_11623" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Stephanie Pink works for a literary agent in New York and she is trying to obtain the sequel manuscript to&nbsp;<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Agnes Wharton's best selling novel.&nbsp; She is to meet Agnes in a cemetery in an out of the way place on the west coast.&nbsp; But when Agnes ignores her and runs from her she shouts "find my dog", "find Sweetness."&nbsp; Thus begins an unbelievable adventure for Stephanie, as Sweetness turns out to be a 100 pounds of lovable trouble.&nbsp; Stephanie must find the dog in order to claim the manuscript.&nbsp; She tracks Sweetness to a campground and meets up with Rhett Hastings, a man trying to right some wrongs.&nbsp; He agrees to help Stephanie find Sweetness and thus begins an unbelievable adventure of merriment and mayhem, and ends in both restoring their faith in God and realizing God's will for their lives.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8115820901yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472059317764_12296" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1472078290862_2317" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">4 stars</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8115820901yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472059317764_12395" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">This was a completely different type of book from what I usually read, which is historical and Amish fiction. It was enjoyable and a light-hearted read.&nbsp; Sometimes hard to believe that some one could run into so much trouble.&nbsp; But of course it is fiction. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8115820901yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472059317764_12395" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8115820901yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472059317764_12395" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/campaigns/fetching-sweetness-dana-mentink" target="_blank"><img src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fetching-sweetness-nc-banner.png" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-33496506113627759692016-07-18T17:16:00.000-04:002016-07-18T17:16:38.592-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Cover Art" class="cover" src="http://assets.bakerpublishinggroup.com/processed/books/covers/listing/9780800723583.jpg?1446533169" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"All Summer Long"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Melody Carlson</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>She's ready to take on a new challenge. What she doesn't expect is an old flame.</b><br />Tia D'Amico is thrilled to move to San Francisco to help her aunt transform an old luxury yacht into an upscale floating restaurant. What's not to love? Sunset dinner cruises, posh wedding receptions--the possibilities are endless and far more appetizing than staying in a monotonous job in her Podunk hometown. Besides, some of her best memories are tied to San Francisco--especially the memory of Leo Parker, her crush from a long-ago sailing camp.<br /><br />When Leo Parker himself turns out to be the yacht's captain, Tia is floating on air. But will it all come crashing down around her when she discovers his heart belongs to someone else?<br /><br />Get ready for a romantic summer in San Francisco, where the future glistens brighter than the Bay at sunset.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***********************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">While I was looking forward to reading another book by Melody Carlson, as I usually enjoy her books, this one I did not.&nbsp; From the description of the book, I was anticipating a fun, "San Fransisco vacation".&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately, this book was anything but that. The description of the scenery was beautiful, but the rest of the book seemed more like a soap opera.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There were also instances where Tia and her friend (that is a girl) were joking as if they were more than friends.&nbsp; That is not appreciated nor welcomed here.&nbsp; I was raised that sin is sin and to make fun of sin is just as much of a sin than the sin you are making fun of.&nbsp; This ruined the whole book for me.&nbsp; Never would I expect to read such material in a "Christian" fiction novel.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">I cannot recommend this book.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM REVELL PUBLISHERS FOR REVIEW PURPOSES. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-72510321377682171222016-07-18T16:54:00.002-04:002016-07-18T16:54:54.946-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Cover Art" class="cover" src="http://assets.bakerpublishinggroup.com/processed/books/covers/listing/9780800727543.jpg?1446533674" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Sea Rose Lane"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Irene Hannon</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;<b>Two people starting over . . . in a town known for second chances</b><br />After a devastating layoff, attorney Eric Nash heads back to Hope Harbor--only to discover that his childhood home is being transformed into a bed and breakfast. Instead of plotting his next career move in peace, he's constantly distracted by noise, chaos--and BJ Stevens, the attractive but prickly blonde architect who's invaded the house with her motley crew. As for BJ, her client's son might be handsome, but after a disastrous romance, dating isn't high on her agenda. Yet when they join forces for to help Hope Harbor seniors, might they also find healing, hope, and a new beginning themselves?<br /><br /><b>Come home to Hope Harbor--where hearts heal . . . and love blooms</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>********************************</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Sea Rose Lane" is a sweet, charming read.&nbsp; Where small town people and big as life problems collide, this book has it all.&nbsp; You will be swept away by this darling little town of Hope Harbor, because the people are so delightful and genuine.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book, but I was proven wrong!&nbsp; The characters are so vivid and easy to relate to.&nbsp; I especially felt like I could relate to BJ, given her struggle with her weight and her love for the elderly.&nbsp; For once the heroine didn't just naturally have a Barbie figure, she had to work at being trim, just like the rest of us do.&nbsp; Most times in a book the girl has a perfect figure, perfect hair etc. and is unrealistic.&nbsp; I'm glad that Irene Hannon made BJ real! &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Eric was a big sweetheart and a very understanding man.&nbsp; While his personality isn't the norm for men these days, it should be.&nbsp; I love how he reached out to Luis and tried his best to be the friend that Luis needed. &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Luis' story broke my heart.&nbsp; What a devastating blow, but God wasn't done with him yet! &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Charlie was also a favorite!&nbsp; I'm not a big seafood person. In fact, I don't like seafood at all, but the way Hannon wrote about those fish tacos, I was actually craving some!&nbsp; Charlie's insight was uncanny!&nbsp; Could he be an angel?&nbsp; :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Each and every character was unique and special.&nbsp; By reading Sea Rose Lane, I feel as if I'm a part of this charming, little town.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I highly recommend this book!&nbsp; You will not be disappointed if you read this novel and if you don't, you'll be missing out!&nbsp; It is book 2, but is also a stand alone novel.&nbsp; I didn't read book 1 and was not confused one bit by starting with book 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the book <span style="background-color: #660000;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/sea-rose-lane/379880" target="_blank">here</a></span></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM REVELL PUBLISHERS FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-83948161380629878032016-07-18T16:30:00.000-04:002016-07-18T16:30:04.900-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img id="img" src="http://relzreviewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Faith-682x1024.jpg" style="height: 373px; width: 249px;" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Faith"&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lyn Cote</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A Quakeress on a Civil War battlefield?&nbsp; The Quakers don't believe in war. But Faith had a gift for nursing. So she offers her skills to take care of the wounded &amp; to use the opportunity to search for a freeborn childhood friend who was kidnapped &amp; sold to the south by unscrupulous slave catchers.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She enlists the help of Colonel Devlin Knight, who himself, although a Union soldier, has a slave.&nbsp; Yet this slave is more of a friend than a slave.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Traveling east with Grant's army, Devlin and Faith fight their personal battles and a growing attraction to each other.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Can they put aside their personal differences and listen to their hearts?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*******************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">I enjoyed this book very much.&nbsp; I haven't read many "Quaker" books.&nbsp; This read by Lyn Cote offered a new aspect where you wouldn't think a Quaker would be involved with a war.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It offered many twists and turns, which kept things interesting. &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Would definitely recommend this book!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM TYNDALE PUBLISHERS FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.&nbsp; </span></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-5449408861304819892016-06-14T17:32:00.000-04:002016-06-14T17:32:07.031-04:00<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Cover Art" class="cover" src="http://assets.bakerpublishinggroup.com/processed/books/covers/listing/9780800724184.jpg?1446533243" /><br />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Silence In The Dark"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Patricia Bradley</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Bailey Adams is running for her life .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. again.</b><br />When Bailey Adams left Logan Point two years ago she thought she was getting away from her problems. Running into her ex-fiancé Danny Maxwell was not part of the plan--neither was being chased through the city by the local drug cartel, the Calatrava. Now despite her best efforts, Danny is her only chance of escaping the people chasing her and getting back to Logan Point safely. Can Bailey find the strength to face what's coming? And in the midst of the chaos, can she keep herself from falling in love with her rescuer all over again?<br /><br />With lean, fast-paced prose that will keep you turning the pages, Patricia Bradley pens a superb story of suspense and second chances.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">******************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">Patricia Bradley's "Silence In The Dark" is her best book yet!&nbsp; A non-stop, action packed, suspense-filled, roller coaster ride of a book.&nbsp; It was so hard to put down.&nbsp; The characters were very well developed and each had a bit of a mystery to them, which made me keep guessing who was the guilty one.&nbsp; Just when I thought I had it figured out, I changed my mind.&nbsp;<br /><br />"Silence In The Dark" has just the right amount of suspense and romance and they blended so well together in this book.&nbsp; This one is for sure my favorite of Patricia Bradley's work.&nbsp;<br /><br />The characters and the story still plays vividly in my mind, even though I finished it a while ago.&nbsp; I feel as if I've lost some dear friends now that I'm done reading the book.&nbsp; They were so vivid!<br /><br />Read more about the book <span style="background-color: #660000;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/silence-in-the-dark/354210" target="_blank">here</a></span></span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">I&nbsp; RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM REVELL PUBLISHERS FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span>&nbsp; </div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-25036384942404833362016-06-07T23:58:00.000-04:002016-06-07T23:58:54.142-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="A Daughter’s Dream" class="left" height="auto" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/A-Daughters-Dream.png" width="250" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"A Daughter's Dream</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shelly Shepard Gray</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rebecca Kinsinger had always dreamed of being a teaching instead of working at the family lumber company.&nbsp; But when given the opportunity to be in charge of a classroom, she discovers that teaching is hard work and the children don't like her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She meets Lilly Yoder - a thirteen year old who just lost her parents.&nbsp; She is being raised by her uncle Jacob.&nbsp; Rebecca and Jacob develops a friendship.&nbsp; Will this friendship grow into love?</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">*******************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">An easy, enjoyable read when you want something with which to help you relax.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the book <span style="background-color: #660000;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/sgray" target="_blank">here</a></span></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span> <br />&nbsp;</div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-68468484339417768082016-06-07T23:36:00.003-04:002016-06-07T23:38:29.170-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Anchor in the Storm" class="left" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Anchor-in-the-Storm-emailjpg.jpg" height="auto" width="250" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Anchor In The Storm"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sarah Sundin</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">America has just entered WWII and Lillian's brother, Jim is in the Navy.&nbsp; Lillian Avery has just finished Pharmacy School and is on her way to Boston for her first job as a full fledged pharmacist.&nbsp; But her new boss is quick to tell her that she was hired only because all the men are at war.&nbsp; He is not happy to learn of her handicap either. &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Because of her handicap, and something that happened with an old boy friend, she doesn't trust men.&nbsp; Her brother Jim's best friend, Archer, sets out to change her mind. &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile Lillian begins to notice a lot of prescription for barbiturates being filled, but is told that the doctor knows what he is doing.&nbsp; However, Lillian's conscience won't let her do this.&nbsp; She decides to try to solve the problem herself and ends up in danger. &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Will she survive?&nbsp; Can Arch ever earn Lillian's love and trust?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">I thoroughly enjoyed this book as I do all of Sarah Sundin's books.&nbsp; I loved the fact that she has a theme to the book - Jesus is our Anchor in a time of storm and how her dad gave her an anchor necklace to remind her that Jesus is our Anchor, our Hope in any storm, our Refuge.&nbsp; This spoke to me so much that I bought an anchor necklace for myself. &nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the book <span style="background-color: #660000;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/ssundin" target="_blank">here</a></span></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE AND REVELL PUBLISHERS FOR REVIEW PURPOSES. &nbsp;</span>&nbsp; </div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321106165349225289.post-74547240095849539112016-06-07T23:21:00.000-04:002016-06-07T23:21:22.773-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Beautiful Pretender" class="left" height="auto" src="http://litfusegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/The-Beautiful-Pretender.jpg" width="250" />&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">"The Beautiful Pretender"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Melanie Dickerson</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><strong>What happens when a margrave realizes he’s fallen in love with a servant?</strong><br /> The Margrave of Thornbeck has to find a bride, fast. He invites ten noble-born ladies from around the country to be his guests at Thornbeck Castle for two weeks, a time to test these ladies and reveal their true character.<br /> Avelina is only responsible for two things: making sure her deception goes undetected and avoiding being selected as the margrave’s bride. Since the latter seems unlikely, she concentrates on not getting caught. No one must know she is merely a maidservant, sent by the Earl of Plimmwald to stand in for his daughter, Dorothea.<br /> Despite Avelina’s best attempts at diverting attention from herself, the margrave has taken notice. And try as she might, she can’t deny her own growing feelings. But something else is afoot in the castle. Something sinister that could have far worse—far deadlier—consequences. Will Avelina be able to stop the evil plot? And at what cost?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">*********************************</div><div style="text-align: center;">At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book because medieval times aren't don't usually interest me.&nbsp; But I was proven wrong.&nbsp; This book intrigued me.&nbsp; Especially Avelina's role as an under cover "Lady".&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Margrave didn't really impress me though.&nbsp; He was kind of a grouch. Similar to Beauty and the Beast.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is an exciting and charming book.&nbsp; A true fairy tale romance!&nbsp; I'm glad that I was able to review this book.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read more about the book <span style="background-color: #660000;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="http://litfusegroup.com/author/mdickerson" target="_blank">here</a></span></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I RECEIVED THIS COMPLIMENTARY BOOK FROM LITFUSE FOR REVIEW PURPOSES.</span>&nbsp; </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Dixie n Dottiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404849410247296976noreply@blogger.com0